Radio Boise Podcast

🧠💬 Why do so many of us struggle to say no, avoid conflict, or end up carrying everyone else’s emotional load? Sometimes the roles we play as adults started long before we even realized it. 💭👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 This week on Elementary Watson, Dr. Jo-Ellen Watson and Sheepdog explore how family dynamics shape the way we relate to others—and ourselves. 🌱✨ We’ll talk about: • Why people pleasing becomes...

🌿 May is Mental Health Month 🌿 What if improving your mental health didn’t require a complete life overhaul — but instead just a few small, consistent, intentional choices? 💛 This week on Elementary Watson, Dr. Jo-Ellen Watson and Sheepdog are talking about 30 simple actions that can support your mental well-being. 🧠✨ Things like: 🌞 Getting outside 💬 Reaching out to someone 🛑 Setting healt...

🎙️✨ Communication Matters Meets Elementary Watson! ✨🎙️ This week on Elementary Watson, we’re crossing the studio lines for a special Radio Boise crossover episode with Brian and Shauna Smith, the hosts of Communication Matters! 💬❤️ Brian, a mental health counselor, and Shauna, a speech-language pathologist, have built Communication Matters around exploring communication, relationships, and the...

💎📻 It’s Radiothon Week at Radio Boise—and we’re celebrating 15 years of community, connection, and independent radio! 🎉✨ This week on Elementary Watson, we’re honored to welcome Lorraine Draper, sharing the mission behind Light the Night for Hope—a powerful event focused on suicide prevention and mental health awareness. 🕯️💜 Radiothon is more than a fundraiser—it’s what keeps these vital conv...

Hosted by Rebecca Evans and Ken Rodgers. Aaron Shurin is the author of fourteen books of poetry and prose. He has been a central member of the San Francisco Bay Area writing community for half a century, having taught a generation of poets at universities throughout the city. A graduate himself of the storied Poetics Program at the New College of California, he is a professor emeritus and former d...

Hosted by Rebecca Evans and Ken Rodgers. Brian Rohr, poet, writer, and performative storyteller, is the founder and director of The Stafford Challenge, an international poetry project encouraging over a thousand participants to write a poem every day for a year, inspired by the legendary William Stafford. His writing has appeared in several journals, art-shows, and anthologies. As a storyteller an...

Hosted by Rebecca Evans and Ken Rodgers. The Guest: LANCE OLSEN is author of more than 30 books of and about innovative writing practices, including, most recently, the novels Absolute Away (Dzanc, 2024) and Always Crashing in the Same Car: A Novel After David Bowie (FC2, 2023). His short stories, essays, and reviews have appeared in hundreds of journals and anthologies. A Guggenheim, Berlin Prize...

Hosted by Jodi Eichelberger. Another episode of Story Story Night comes courtesy of the theme Stories Inspired by Emojis.

Death Rattle Literary co-founder Diana Forgione is our featured guest Sunday, 4/19. They’ll be reading from their own & others’ work—as well as discussing the work they do in the literary community hosting literary events, publishing OUROBORO, teaching writing workshops, and offering professional editing services to writers wishing to hone their craft. More at https://deathrattle.org/ BIO: Diana F...

In this episode we wrap up our series on intergenerational communication with Gen Z (we're not ignoring Gen Alpha, they're just not old enough yet). This is a generation that is experiencing a current upheaval similar to what Boomers grew up with, particularly rapidly changing technology, and economic and socio-political uncertainties. They are coming of age and, like all the other generations cov...

We return (finally) to our series on generations with a focus on Boomers. Their generation witnessed pivotal turning points for the country and word: the advent of nuclear warfare, the moon landing, Vietnam and the Civil Rights era, and most interesting - the interstate highway system and establishment of suburban life! Listen in as we explore their worldview and communication style, and how to br...

Valentine's Day is around the corner, and love is in the air. In this episode we'll explore how emotional connection is the foundation for romantic love and how to support and meet emotional needs for our partner, and how to get our own needs met... after we figure out what they are, of course. Facebook Page Link: www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1…&mibextid=LQQJ4d Instagram Page Link: https://www....

Effecting personal change on our own volition and terms is one thing - adapting to external change while adhering to our values is another. Often times, we think of adapting to unexpected change or change beyond our control as something we must do, and all we have to change behavior. That can be an unwelcome and unsustainable ask if we don't consider how the change and adaptation to it connects wi...

MAR KA Poet Mar Ka writes from the foothills of Alaska's Chugach Mountains. Winner of the Midnight Sun Poetry Prize, recipient of an NEH grant, longtime poetry judge for the University of Alaska/ADN statewide Creative Writing Contest, her poems have been published in national and international journals. Her work as an indigenous rights attorney took her to some ninety of Alaska's two hundred-plus...

Hosted by Ken Rodgers and Rebecca Evans. Music is Words by Steve Wilson. The Guest: Gail is a retired librarian (she received her MLIS from Syracuse University and a BA in History from Brigham Young University), a genealogist (solving history mysteries), an herbalist, and nonni to thirteen amazing grandchildren. Gail is the author of the Gallagher Girls Mysteries series. She is a member of ANWA (A...

Danusha Laméris, a poet and essayist, was raised in Northern California and born to a Dutch father and Barbadian mother. Laméris is a recipient of a Pushcart Prize and was honored by the 2020 Lucille Clifton Legacy Award. She served as the 2018-2020 Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County, California. Some of her work has been published in: The Best American Poetry, The New York Times, Orion, The Ameri...

Barbara Treefort March 28 2026 by Radio Boise

Jesus Christ Taxi Driver Treefort March 28 2026 by Radio Boise

Toody Cole and Her Band Treefort March 28 2026 by Radio Boise

Dirt Russell From The Basement 2022 by Radio Boise

Hosted by Jodi Eichelberger. Today's theme is Falling Up, with stories about forgetting to renew your driver's license, to the existential malaise of cleaning sunglasses at a Sunglass Hut, to a reluctant receiver of a person's ashes, to life-change, on the fly, with a reconstructed knee.

Mylo Bybee From The Basement by Radio Boise

Bio: Francesca Kritikos is a Greek-American poet. Her latest book, The season of lilacs is monstrous, was published in October 2025 by Blush Lit. She is also the author of SWEET BLOODY SALTY CLEAN (Feral Dove, 2023), Exercise in Desire (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press, 2022) and Animals Don't Go To Hell (Bottlecap Press, 2021). Her writing has been published in English, French and Greek in Hobart, Drea...

👕✨ The price tag doesn’t tell the whole story… ✨🌍 Fast fashion may be easy on your wallet, but it comes with a hidden cost to our planet—and our health. From overflowing landfills to pollution in our own communities, what we wear has a bigger impact than we think. ♻️💭 This week on Elementary Watson – Strategically Living Your Best Life, Dr. Jo-Ellen Watson and Sheepdog dive into the environme...

Do you ever feel like everyone else has life figured out… and you’re the only one falling behind? 🤔 This week on Elementary Watson – Strategically Living Your Best Life, we’re exploring The Comparison Trap—why our brains constantly measure our lives against others. Inspired by conversations from Hidden Brain, insights from The Atlantic, and research on self-shame, we unpack how comparison can mot...